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Scotland's Constitution was formulated between
1957-1964 at the behest of Scottish business man and patriot Roland E.
Muirhead 1868-1964. In 1918 already a member of the Independent Labor
Party, he revived the Scottish Home rule Association. Ten years later,
despairing of its effectiveness he moved to the National Party of
Scotland, becoming one of its first Parliamentary candidates [for west
Renfrewshire] and its President. In the NPS Muirhead became closely
associated with John MacCormick whose populist manner he conspicuously
lacked. Together with Professor A.D. Gibb and others they formed the
Scottish National Party in 1934. Muirhead became its Honorary President.
He stayed with the SNP when MacCormick split away to form the broad-base
Scottish Convention but in 1952 now 82 himself formed a radical splinter
group, the Scottish National Congress under whose auspices A Constitution
for Scotland was drafted in 1962. His office at Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow
was the meeting place of the committee of Articles whose task it was to
examine the constitutions of the world. The publication of Scotland's
Constitution is dedicated to the memory of Roland Eugene Muirhead who for
seventy five years relentlessly campaigned for an independent Scottish
parliament.
President, Muirhead Clan Society
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